Most random place you've heard a Eurovision entry? (1 Viewer)

[Jacques]

This thread is inspired by me walking into Oliver Bonas yesterday, and 'Divine' by Sebastien Tellier was playing

If we extend out to NF entries or Eurovision artists in general, I heard 'Smile' by Benjamin Ingrosso in a Brewers Fayre the other month

 

[Marina Salty]

I listen to Tattoo literally daily when am in a taxi, for some reason taxi drivers adore it.

 

[Kratz]

During Covid, when I lived in the old BBC TV Centre, the strangest thing (after constantly being caught in the background of Loose Women being filmed outdoors) was my daily walk though an almost entirely closed down Westfield to the dystopian tones of The Mamas ‘Move’ - every single day.

 

[Kratz]

Oh and when I went to Marrakech last year, the radio in the taxi was playing Ti Amo by Gina G (appreciate that is Eurovision adjacent but I appreciated it at the time).

This was shortly before I was nearly flattened in the earthquake

 

[Dark Carnival]

Oh and went I went to Marrakech last year, the radio playing Ti Amo by Gina G (appreciate that is Eurovision adjacent but I appreciated it).

This was shortly before I was nearly flattened in the earthquake

I won't say both events are related, but I cannot exclude it.

 

[Velvet Skies]

Certainly not the most random, but last year Benny Cristo (Czech Republic 2020 & 2021) did a song in French which made its way onto popular French radios.
Given how impervious France usually is to the Eurovision bubble I would not have bet on this happening, especially with Benny of all the people who graced the Eurovision stage!

 

[Madison]

I heard Marie N’s “I Wanna” in an Oxford Street branch of Zara in 2010.

 

[Alex]

Rockefeller Street in MediaMarkt, Kortrijk in Belgium back in 2018

 

[Pingu]

We Are One by Wild Youth in duty free at Gatwick Airport.

 

[Lucille]

Well if anything is going to DRIVE YOU to DRINK.

 

[GALA]

I heard a group of kids singing Love Shine A Light in Ghent in 2019. I was shocked, but loved it. God bless them.

 

[Kratz]

I heard Marie N’s “I Wanna” in an Oxford Street branch of Zara in 2010.

I presume it set the security alarms off

 

[Madison]

I presume it set the security alarms off

I burned the place to the ground.

 

[Suomi]

I usually try to get as many Melfest/Eurovision songs into school productions that I write. The least successful attempt was On Top of the World by The Swedish Housewives because one of the lead singers got herself tangled around the microphone chord and fell over. She started crying mid-song which I thought was quite unprofessional.

Love Shine a Light worked brilliantly in a school assembly because I had individual children enter the stage playing instruments as the song built.

I managed to get Undo by Sanna Nielsen into a Christmas musical I wrote which was based around Hansel and Gretel but set primarily to the music of Kelly Clarkson. The protagonists found themselves cast under a spell that they had to reverse, so it worked perfectly.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

I managed to get Undo by Sanna Nielsen into a Christmas musical I wrote which was based around Hansel and Gretel but set primarily to the music of Kelly Clarkson. The protagonists found themselves cast under a spell that they had to reverse, so it worked perfectly.

Also doubles as a wonderful lesson in GRAMMAR

 

[Marina Salty]

Just now, am in the apartment on my bed and I hear someone passing outside the street singing to himself "take a look at yourself cause that's what you need to do, to do, cause the only problem in this room is about you, about you, cause you're a liar, liar, liar, liar, yeah, yeah, yeah"

 

[Kratz]

Just now, am in the apartment on my bed and I hear someone passing outside the street singing to himself "take a look at yourself cause that's what you need to do, to do, cause the only problem in this room is about you, about you, cause you're a liar, liar, liar, liar, yeah, yeah, yeah"

Oh yeah that was me. Did I wake you?

 

[Jacques]

I'm on holiday in Tunisia and a couple of days ago round the pool they were playing an instrumental of "What's Another Year?"

They clearly want in!

 

[Marina Salty]

Am at the village and this is the Sunday Easter morning, which means the villagers are in the gardens doing barbecues listening to hard core folk. So what do I hear blasting just now? Barbara Pravi - Voilà

 

[Lucille]

 

[Inner Smile]

Deansgate

 

[HalamaK]

Hearing My Number One played at a funeral.

The person who passed used to sing these lines:

Say you miss me
Come and kiss me
Take me up to heaven and you won't regret it

You are the one
You're my number one
The only treasure I'll ever have
You are the one
You're my number one
Anything for you 'cause you're the one I love

To her devout ears, the song's subject was unquestionably God.

 

[Marina Salty]

Am at the island, there's a birthday party at a nearby house and they're going mental now with Fuego.

 

[Marina Salty]

In the balcony while someone in one of the nearby apartment buildings is blasting Europapa.

 

[Marina Salty]

Plus yesterday afternoon we heard some kids singing Zari on a little walk passing through the gardens of some refugee apartment blocks (built to house people flleeing Asia Minor in 1922).

 

[Marina Salty]

My apartment now, cause non eurovision loon Mr. Bay put on Voilà

 

[ZenGiraffe]

My apartment now, cause non eurovision loon Mr. Bay put on Voilà

MY SYMPATHIES

 

[Dark Carnival]

My apartment now, cause non eurovision loon Mr. Bay put on Voilà

I was going to say, beware the anti-French brigade now have a target on his back. But there you go miss Zen was faster.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

But there you go miss Zen was faster.

And Voilà!

 

[Marina Salty]

MY SYMPATHIES

And just now Evidemment!

 

[GNL]

And just now Evidemment!

MÈRE

 

[D5K]

I’m in a shopping centre in Malaysia and they just played Arcade. And for some reason my first thought was to come and post it here.

 

[auretz]

Not heard, but I’m currently in Luxembourg and there’s a huge poster for a Go_A concert just outside my hotel there’s also some event with Tali on which somehow feels even more surprising